Bio: Burt, Frederick W. (1881)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Burt, Jones, Jersey

----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, page 1204

FREDERICK W. BURT, Grand Rapids, son of William Hubbard and Elizabeth Jones Burt, was born in Newark, N.J., in 1830. His father died of cholera in 1833. In 1836 his mother moved, with her three children, to St. Catherines, Canada, where they remained until 1850, when they removed to Stoughton, Wis. In 1852 F. W. Burt obtained a position as clerk in a hotel at Madison, and not long after as salesman in a wholesale grocery house, where he remained until 1855, when he came to Grand Rapids. He has remained here ever since, with the exception of two years, which he spent in Missouri. Mr. B. has been Town Clerk, Justice of the Peace, Clerk of the Court for Wood County for three terms, and Assistant Postmaster, with the office in charge for over six years, and is holding the place at the present time. He enlisted, Sept. 12, 1861, in Co. G, 7th Wis. Vols., which was in the “Old Iron Brigade”; was discharged March 28, 1862, because of chronic diarrhea and rheumatism.

Mr. B. was married in 1855 to Miss Celeste E. Jersey, of Portage City. They have had seven children - Jessie Eva, Fredericka Wilma, who died at the age of two years; Harrie A. Frederick William Jr., Walter Edwin, William Wallace and Carson Otto. Mr. B. is a member of the Masonic Order and also of the I.O.O.F.